On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 11:45 -0800, Andrew Potter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Potter <agpot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] blah blah blah. > > > On second reading this comes off as a little flippant, my apologies. > You made a good point, and I should have prefaced my example with links to > "proper" serialization tools.
Apology accepted :-) The important point is that the user's data belongs to the data, not to the program, so using a suitably open file format is in its way as important as using Free software. That it's easier for the programmers to create and read application-specific binary files is a problem that would be worth fixing. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
